Why are so many successful "Blacks" obviously mixed race - Bob Marley, Condileeza Rice, Colin Powell, Tiger Woods, Lewis Hamilton, and now Barack Obama? Put any of these next to real Africans and they almost look White!

What the US Election shows is that while Blacks have a fully developed racial consciousness and are proud of themselves regardless of achievement, Whites can be divided into:

(1) Racially conscious and proud (10%)

(2) Racially conscious and guilty (40%)

(3) Racially "subconscious" (40-50%)

(4) Racially unconscious (0-10%)

In the US Election, Group 1 voters were present in large numbers in the old South, where the White vote held up. Many of these people know Blacks and even like them, but still clearly identify with their own and are proud of it,

When polled Group 2 have a tendency to say they will vote for the non-White candidate and then not vote for him (Bradley effect) but many of them will vote for a non-White candidate out of sheer guilt and inverted racism, especially is the other candidate is poor (as was the case in this election).

Group 3 like to think of themselves as beyond racism and look down on the other groups, yet, strangely enough, you can find many of this group living in all-White neighbourhoods, going to all-White churches, sending their kids to largely White schools, and associating mainly with Whites or the occasional non-White who acts 'White.' They are acting as if they had White consciousness, which they do but at the subconscious level.

Since racial consciousness is a natural thing, Group 4 people are usually those with extremely low IQs or those who have damaged their minds beyond repair with drugs or alcohol, having reduced themselves to a point where the normal parameters of human identity no longer have any meaning.

Correct me if I'm wrong, but it seems as if in European politics, if a political party has "National" in its name(or at least as the main part of its name), you can pretty much replace "National" with "Nazi" and still be accurate, correct?

LOL @ the hybrid vigor fail this asshole is trying to invoke. Of course there are plenty of Africans without "white" blood that have done amazing things for the world other than throw around basketballs and football.

Now my question to you, Karl is, what is the threshold for white genes to show significant improvements in intellect? Surely, if white genes are so potent, all white people should be Nobel Prize winners *rolls eyes*

Funny, Tiger Woods is half black and half..........Asian......another "inferior" race, according to you. And for the record, ALL the African American people have some white DNA, so your argument is, at best, useless.

First, "Group 4" is almost certainly larger than they think for two major reasons:
One, because the Bradley Effect is bunk (it was created to explain something already explained by the voter turnout for a different race, IIRC a referendum) and the notion that people will vote for a poor candidate unless brainwashed otherwise is implausible at best, most of "Group 2" should be presumptively reassigned to "Group 4" (as is proper; the notion that someone, let alone two fifths of whites, are racist and intentionally hide their racism should be presumed false unless and until proven otherwise).
Two, because "Group 3" is explicitly defined by the presence of a pattern of living deemed indicative (or in the case of youths in those living patterns, causative) of "White consciousness", those in "Group 3" who do not live in this pattern must, again, be presumptively reassigned to "Group 4".
I suspect that the resistance to presumptive assignment to "Group 4" is due to the same wishful thinking that caused him to believe in the reality of the Bradley effect (ie, that whites are naturally "Racially conscious"); this is consistent with his description of "Group 4" membership as the product of mental impairment.

Second, "Group 2" arguably depends on the concept of guilt as shame rather than as remorse (this leads to a value system very alien to ours). Mentioning the Bradley effect, the notion that people are more racist when no-one is watching, as a credible phenomenon is interesting in that it indicates a willingness to believe that the "Racially conscious" see nothing wrong with actually BEING racist.

Third, I have read a lot about "Group 3" (although the definitive book on the subject, 'Sundown Towns' by James Loewen, remains on my wish list) and I believe it is statistically accurate to say that they are the most racist people in North America.

@#969097: He does have a point about Colin Powell, whose skin is so light that calling him "black" seems uncomfortably Orwellian.

On a personal note, as an arguable member of "Group 2" myself (I would of course LIKE to believe that I have grown out of having racist views regarding the problems of disadvantaged communities (my current views are those of Tolpuddle Martyr) and I would LIKE to believe that misunderstanding something real is not as bad as believing something utterly defamatory, but by that criterion members of "Group 3" would LIKE to believe that their suburb just HAPPENED to be entirely white), I will say that being a racist is something that one ought to feel remorse over, not only for the sake of the members of the races in question, but because racism, like many other sources of easy answers, stunts both our appetite for truths and our ability to accept responsibilities, and these are life's measures. A racist could argue that their position, however unhealthy, is itself a truth and part of them as a person, but being a racist not only makes you an entirely different person than you would be if you were not a racist, it also makes you a more stunted one: Would a racist Darwin have understood that evolution was not directed by some sort of urge to become Homo sapiens (as his successors believed until the time of Julian Huxley)? Would 'Sundown Towns' be as good if Loewen had simply accepted the racist line that the suburbs are white because of blacks? Would Martin King have been as great if he had believed that whites were inherently evil?